Job 4 #catechesis/bible/job
[!abstract] Eliphas charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent.
Book: Job · ← Job 3 · Job 5 →
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GR ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιφας ὁ Θαιμανίτης λέγει
LA Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
EN Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:
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GR μὴ πολλάκις σοι λελάληται ἐν κόπῳ ἰσχὺν δὲ ῥημάτων σου τίς ὑποίσει
LA Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
EN If we begin to speak to you, perhaps you will take it ill; but who can withhold the words he has conceived?
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GR εἰ γὰρ σὺ ἐνουθέτησας πολλοὺς καὶ χεῖρας ἀσθενοῦς παρεκάλεσας
LA Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;
EN Behold you have taught many, and you have strengthened the weary hands:
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GR ἀσθενοῦντάς τε ἐξανέστησας ῥήμασιν γόνασίν τε ἀδυνατοῦσιν θάρσος περιέθηκας
LA vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
EN Your words have confirmed them that were staggering, and you have strengthened the trembling knees:
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GR νῦν δὲ ἥκει ἐπὶ σὲ πόνος καὶ ἥψατό σου σὺ δὲ ἐσπούδασας
LA Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
EN But now the scourge has come upon you, and you faint: It has touched you, and you are troubled.
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GR πότερον οὐχ ὁ φόβος σού ἐστιν ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς σου καὶ ἡ ἀκακία τῆς ὁδοῦ σου
LA Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?
EN Where is your fear, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
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GR μνήσθητι οὖν τίς καθαρὸς ὢν ἀπώλετο ἢ πότε ἀληθινοὶ ὁλόρριζοι ἀπώλοντο
LA Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
EN Remember, I pray you, who ever perished being innocent? Or when were the just destroyed?
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GR καθ’ ὃν τρόπον εἶδον τοὺς ἀροτριῶντας τὰ ἄτοπα οἱ δὲ σπείροντες αὐτὰ ὀδύνας θεριοῦσιν ἑαυτοῖς
LA Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,
EN On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
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GR ἀπὸ προστάγματος κυρίου ἀπολοῦνται ἀπὸ δὲ πνεύματος ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ἀφανισθήσονται
LA flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.
EN perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
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GR σθένος λέοντος φωνὴ δὲ λεαίνης γαυρίαμα δὲ δρακόντων ἐσβέσθη
LA Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
EN The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:
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GR μυρμηκολέων ὤλετο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βοράν σκύμνοι δὲ λεόντων ἔλιπον ἀλλήλους
LA Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
EN The tiger has perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
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GR εἰ δέ τι ῥῆμα ἀληθινὸν ἐγεγόνει ἐν λόγοις σου οὐθὲν ἄν σοι τούτων κακὸν ἀπήντησεν πότερον οὐ δέξεταί μου τὸ οὖς ἐξαίσια παρ’ αὐτοῦ
LA Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
EN Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.
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GR φόβοι δὲ καὶ ἠχὼ νυκτερινή ἐπιπίπτων φόβος ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπους
LA In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
EN In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
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GR φρίκη δέ μοι συνήντησεν καὶ τρόμος καὶ μεγάλως μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συνέσεισεν
LA pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;
EN fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
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GR καὶ πνεῦμα ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου ἐπῆλθεν ἔφριξαν δέ μου τρίχες καὶ σάρκες
LA et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.
EN And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
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GR ἀνέστην καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνων εἶδον καὶ οὐκ ἦν μορφὴ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου ἀλλ’ ἢ αὔραν καὶ φωνὴν ἤκουον
LA Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.
EN There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.
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GR τί γάρ μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἐναντίον κυρίου ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἄμεμπτος ἀνήρ
LA Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?
EN Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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GR εἰ κατὰ παίδων αὐτοῦ οὐ πιστεύει κατὰ δὲ ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ σκολιόν τι ἐπενόησεν
LA Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;
EN Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
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GR τοὺς δὲ κατοικοῦντας οἰκίας πηλίνας ἐξ ὧν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πηλοῦ ἐσμεν ἔπαισεν αὐτοὺς σητὸς τρόπον
LA quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?
EN How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
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GR καὶ ἀπὸ πρωίθεν ἕως ἑσπέρας οὐκέτι εἰσίν παρὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς βοηθῆσαι ἀπώλοντο
LA De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.
EN From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understands, they shall perish for ever.
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GR ἐνεφύσησεν γὰρ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐξηράνθησαν ἀπώλοντο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν αὐτοὺς σοφίαν
LA Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.
EN And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
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[!note]- Shall man be justified in comparison of God, etc…
These are the words which Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which (verse 15) he calls a spirit. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
